DISSONANCE
09.05 - 08.06 2025
The exhibition Dissonance is a solo exhibition by Ditte Marie Frost.
The exhibition shows the series Father's three hands which examines power, trust, biases, and the dark sides of culture and society.
The series consists of three interconnected sculptures. All three take the form of two-meter-high hands, and in this way they mimic the viewer with their bodily sized format. Two of the sculptures function as right and left hands made of metal rods. The two hands play together as three-dimensional lines that move around the room. The symmetry between them creates harmony and a sense of recognition.
The third work stands out from the other two. It consists of linen canvas, chains, hooks and insect nets sewn together with coarse stitches to form a bony and sinewy hand. The chains and the hand balance each other's weight, so that the work hangs in tension over an oval-bent rod. The work draws on Julia Kristeva's theories of abjection because it evokes associations with something rejected, like the shed outermost layer of skin from an animal or a gloomy secret.
The title of the work Father's three hands is a reference to the Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and the father as the male parent. Dissonance can mean a dissonance, or a form of displeasure that breaks the connection. It can, for example, be a disruption of the perception of reality, or when actions and attitudes are contradictory.
The exhibition is kindly supported by Aarhus Municipality.
The exhibition Dissonance is a solo exhibition by Ditte Marie Frost.
The exhibition shows the series Father's three hands which examines power, trust, biases, and the dark sides of culture and society.
The series consists of three interconnected sculptures. All three take the form of two-meter-high hands, and in this way they mimic the viewer with their bodily sized format. Two of the sculptures function as right and left hands made of metal rods. The two hands play together as three-dimensional lines that move around the room. The symmetry between them creates harmony and a sense of recognition.
The third work stands out from the other two. It consists of linen canvas, chains, hooks and insect nets sewn together with coarse stitches to form a bony and sinewy hand. The chains and the hand balance each other's weight, so that the work hangs in tension over an oval-bent rod. The work draws on Julia Kristeva's theories of abjection because it evokes associations with something rejected, like the shed outermost layer of skin from an animal or a gloomy secret.
The title of the work Father's three hands is a reference to the Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and the father as the male parent. Dissonance can mean a dissonance, or a form of displeasure that breaks the connection. It can, for example, be a disruption of the perception of reality, or when actions and attitudes are contradictory.
Ditte Marie Frost
(* 1992) is a trained visual artist from the Funen Art Academy in Odense (2015-2020), with an exchange stay at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2018-2019. In 2022 she had her first solo exhibition at Platform in Nikolaj Kunsthal. She has also exhibited in Rundetårn and in Ladderspace in Copenhagen. Through the media of sculpture, installation and painting, Frost explores the themes of the collective conscious and unconscious mind, abjection, and what identity means in our time. The motifs in her works are abstractions taken from fictional creatures from sci-fi films, mythical creatures, plants, insects and human and animal anatomy.The exhibition is kindly supported by Aarhus Municipality.
